I don't 'get' Racism...

[KoSTHB]

Most people assume that all people of all skin colors are the same on average. If that would be true, racism would have no point. However i think this theory is not valid.

If you know that blue people make up 50% of the prison population while they are 5% of the whole population, you can safely assume that a random blue man has a much higher percentage to be a criminal in comparison with a random non-blue man.

Thus behaving more cautiously with a blue man, or avoiding blue people altogether has its rewards: meeting with less criminals, being less of a victim. By just excluding 5% of the population from your life can result in 50% less negative experience. A tradeoff that it is well worth in my opinion.

Avoiding criminals would give even better results ofc; but skin color is pretty much visible, while intentions are not. So, the second best solution is to avoid blue people.

does any of that makes you wonder why a 5% of the population makes up 50% of prisons? could part of it be current and past institutional discrimination against this small group. That be from anything from wrongly arresting to discrimination of where u could buy houses , only allowing them to live in poor areas with no growth potential cause growth in crime leading to the highly populated prisons. so if u consider avoiding potential not racist that does not null the past discrimination done to them and justify your actions

 

[Gustavo S. Buschle]

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I never said that all black people, or that only black people will grow up to be engineers, What I meant was that, if all races had the same chances as each other, there would be a much greater number of black engineers and engineer of other ethnicities.
By the way, saying that Caucasians are white is a racist statement, in some mythology Caucasians where the perfect people sent from god.

 

[Gustavo S. Buschle]

Most people assume that all people of all skin colors are the same on average. If that would be true, racism would have no point. However i think this theory is not valid.

If you know that blue people make up 50% of the prison population while they are 5% of the whole population, you can safely assume that a random blue man has a much higher percentage to be a criminal in comparison with a random non-blue man.

Thus behaving more cautiously with a blue man, or avoiding blue people altogether has its rewards: meeting with less criminals, being less of a victim. By just excluding 5% of the population from your life can result in 50% less negative experience. A tradeoff that it is well worth in my opinion.

Avoiding criminals would give even better results ofc; but skin color is pretty much visible, while intentions are not. So, the second best solution is to avoid blue people.

That is the best explanation of racism I ever heard, thank you, now I get it.

 

[FallenTraveler]

Pretty straight-foward, i just don't understand racism.
Why are people Racist?
What is it about the colour of you're skin that makes you 'better' than others?
I just can't put my finger on it, why is there racism in the world?
To me it doesn't make any logical sense.
So, what are your thoughts on this?

Back in the far flung past of europe, the white people found african people and thought "Hey, they look different, I don't like that, therefore they are lower than I" and racism was born. Now, there is much debate as to whether this was intentional, as at the time the africans were in their tribal state, and could have been seen as "barabaric" by the whites.

This process has continued with every tint and shade of skin pigment up to this very day.

TL;DR: People are assholes who feel the need to be better than others, so why not use a visible indicator to "prove" it.

You don't honestly think that racism was "born" by white Europeans, do you? It has been around since the beginning of man, tribes would fight each other for no other reason than the other was different. Racism is a terrible, terrible thing, but like it or not, it is hardwired into our DNA to be afraid of different cultures than our own.

I don't, I was trying to provide some sort of example of more recent racism and its origins. Although my semi-joking message seems to have lost it's meaning along the way. My TL;DR: is my real point, people hate each other, and are afraid of one another.

 

[Twilight.falls]

I think that humanity just has a tendency to see themselves as better than someone else, and will come up with excuses to "Justify" it. Just so happens that skin color is one of the easiest things to pick out.

If all humans were turned into perfectly identical-in-every-way gray cubes, people would discriminated against others because "Their edges are straightest", or "Their vertices are pointiest."

 

[Joey Corlett]

Pretty straight-foward, i just don't understand racism.
Why are people Racist?
What is it about the colour of you're skin that makes you 'better' than others?
I just can't put my finger on it, why is there racism in the world?
To me it doesn't make any logical sense.
So, what are your thoughts on this?

I wish there was a 'like' feature, like oh lets say Facebook

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

Pretty straight-foward, i just don't understand racism.
Why are people Racist?
What is it about the colour of you're skin that makes you 'better' than others?
I just can't put my finger on it, why is there racism in the world?
To me it doesn't make any logical sense.
So, what are your thoughts on this?

My thought is how can you not understand why racism exists? It's not hard to comprehend. People have grown up in societies that were full of prejudice and hate and have carried those social trends with them over generations. It's not hard to figure out.

And you are saying that white people are the only people who are racist wtf? ROFL

He didn't say anything like that.

To expand on that, it is evolutionary. Xenophobia of rival tribes/groups and close kinship to your tribe helped your tribe to survive and helped you pass on your genes. Of course, it has no place in modern society and should be discouraged. But I definitely "get" racism.

 

[ICortezI]

Racism is something you have to learn as a child. If you don't learn to be a racist at a young age then you will never understand racism.

 

[lacktheknack]

Is saying south koreans are better at RTS racism or fact?

An observation.

OT: Nurture isn't logical. And I fully believe that racism is planted in nurture.

 

[Sizzle Montyjing]

Is saying south koreans are better at RTS racism or fact?

An observation.

OT: Nurture isn't logical. And I fully believe that racism is planted in nurture.

Ah the good' ol Nature vs Nuture argument.
I firmly beleive in nurture, but my friend believes in nature, which i find weird.